A Powerpoint to help students analyse the Biden speech, picking out rhetorical devices and discussing their effects. Includes an extension to write up the analysis or write their own speech. Could be used in KS or as GCSE prep. Works for home learning.

Small posters to go alongside staff training on inclusion and diversity.

Personalised with tips from a GCSE examiner. Includes sentence starters and breakdowns for each question.

A PPT used after a mock exam to help students check their answers. This can be adapted but has a general overview of how to answer each question.

This is a guide to answering the unseen poem question and an overview of the poets whose work could be used.

3 worksheets based on the article published following the sinking of the Titanic. Can be used to cover Paper 2 19th century texts as well as look at the context of An Inspector Calls and views of Arthur Birling.

Scheme of work with lesson plans and activities (used with year nine low ability but could suit year 7 upwards) Series of lessons on reading gothic and gothic fairytale Lessons on writing a gothic story - scaffold in the style of Alan Pete's boxing clever

A PPT showing how to use parenthetic punctuation - links to Beyonce or football.

Example Exam Paper Step Up To English AQA

Prompts for writing an essay for GCSE. Includes an example introduction. Can be edited.

A sheet which outlines achievements of students across the year. I have used it to scaffold conversations at parents’ evenings and the data is useful for evidence when having difficult discussions! - Option to copy and paste last official report - Review of effort, behaviour, organisation and homework - General comments - Review of results in each topic/assessment - Targets to circle/highlight as appropriate

Key vocabulary, character profiles, relationships with others, key quotes, writer's aims/ideas

2 PPTs with worksheets on slides Analysing a series of powerful adverts

PPT - Introduction to Advertising - includes links to the Simpsons, the photoshop debate and Banksy. Example adverts stimulate debate as well as supporting analysis of print which can lead to analysis of text.

A PPT to scaffold discussion about the father daughter relationship in Act 1. Could be used for one or two lessons. Starter - images to stimulate discussion about father daughter relationships. Links to Disney, popular music and Global Learning (forced marriage in UK and globally) Links to Assessment Objectives. Main Activity - group task to create a performance of Act 1 Scene 1. Task is scaffolded to encourage analysis of language. Review - Students perform. Worksheet for peer assessment with an added focus on how characters are presented. Worksheet could then be used to support analysis of the extract for a reading assessment. Exit Pass - Students discuss how they feel about the characters and rate their confidence in studying a Shakespeare play Homework - Write an extract from Hermia’s diary or a speech about forced marriage

Lesson plan, PPT and worksheet. A lesson designed to help students explore the portrayal and development of Sheila - could be used for one lesson or two depending on how much detail you want to go into/level of your students. There is a photo worksheet to help students map out key quotes and how Sheila changes then the lesson is set out as a court room debate with sheets to scaffold students’ reponses. There is an additional focus on vocabulary to support AO4. The lesson is linked to AQA assessment objectives but could easily be adapted and / or used with lower school.

18 lesson plans for AQA Relationships Poetry - new anthology. Lessons are for a low ability Year 10 class and cover the poems about romantic love only (not Climbing My Grandfather etc) There is also a homework booklet with two task per week to develop skills for the unseen exam. Full PPT will be available shortly.

Blank Facebook Profiles with names and photographs of the poets from the AQA Anthology Relationships cluster (new spec) Students use the template to record research linked to context (Assessment Objective 3) for the literature exam.

A worksheet using the Magenta Principles of 'Reduce' to help students identify key information and their own personal responses when approaching a text. Suitable for Year 7 - 11. This has links to Of Mice and Men but can easily be adapted to suit any novel / characters.